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Kevin Barry Reads V. S. Pritchett

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Story of Baronice and Mister Cork

The story is fundamentally about how we want to be seen and how weare actually seen. From the very beginning with baronice, how she thinks of herself are two radically different things. The fundamental thing that they need is materialrai she wants and needs material. And mister cork is looking promising on an unmaterial front.

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